ExpressRoute Pricing

How Azure pricing works

ExpressRoute is a service that enables you to create private connections between Azure datacenters and infrastructure that’s on your premises or in a colocation environment. ExpressRoute connections do not go over the public Internet, and offer more reliability, faster speeds, lower latencies and higher security than typical connections over the Internet.

There are two ways to use the ExpressRoute service to establish a private connection to Azure – via an Exchange Provider or via a Network Service Provider. The associated charges are different for these two cases. Each monthly price includes 2 ports (on 2 routers) for redundancy.

Important: The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an int'l transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes and an eNF will not be issued.

From January 1, 2015 through June 30, 2015, the ExpressRoute Network Service Provider 10 Mbps circuit will be available to customers free of charge* as a limited promotion. This limited promotion expires on July 1, 2015, and the 10 Mbps circuit will return to its full price at that time.

*Network Service Provider partners may have additional charges.

Network Service Providers

ExpressRoute via a Network Service Provider is charged based on a monthly dual-port fee, and all inbound and outbound data transfer is included free of charge.

Network Service Provider Port Speed

Price Per Month 1

Inbound Data Transfer Included

Outbound Data Transfer Included

10 Mbps

$436 (promotionally free from 1/1/15 – 6/30/15)

Unlimited

Unlimited

50 Mbps

$872

Unlimited

Unlimited

100 Mbps

$1300

Unlimited

Unlimited

500 Mbps

$5200

Unlimited

Unlimited

1 Gbps

$8700

Unlimited

Unlimited

1 Billing is prorated hourly. Price above is based on 744 hours per month.

Once connected to an ExpressRoute location in the US, customers can send or retrieve data to/from any Azure region in the US without additional charge. Similarly, once connected to an ExpressRoute location in Europe, customers can send or retrieve data to/from any Azure region in Europe without additional charge.

Note: Network Service Providers may have additional charges that are not included in the Microsoft charges listed above.

Important: The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an int'l transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes and an eNF will not be issued.

Exchange Providers

ExpressRoute via an Exchange Provider is charged based on a monthly dual-port fee. All inbound data transfer is free of charge, and some outbound data transfer is provided free of charge (see details below). Additional outbound data transfer beyond the included amount is charged based on the rate below.

Exchange Provider Port Speed

Price Per Month 1

Inbound Data Transfer Included

Outbound Data Transfer Included, Zone 1

Outbound Data Transfer Included, Zone 2

Outbound Data Transfer Included, Zone 3

200 Mbps

$145

Unlimited

3 TB

1.5 TB

0.75 TB

500 Mbps

$290

Unlimited

7.5 TB

3.75 TB

2 TB

1 Gbps

$436

Unlimited

15 TB

7.5 TB

3.75 TB

10 Gbps

$5000

Unlimited

90 TB

45 TB

22.5 TB

*If you have an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft and need more than 1 circuit in your account, please contact our data provisioning team to ensure proper set-up.1 Billing is prorated hourly. Price above is based on 744 hours per month.

Any outbound data transfer beyond the included amount is charged at a rate of $0.025/GB for Zone 1, $0.05/GB for Zone 2, and $0.14/GB for Zone 3.

Once connected to an ExpressRoute location in the US, customers can send or retrieve data to/from any Azure region in the US without additional charge from Microsoft. Similarly, once connected to an ExpressRoute location in Europe, customers can send or retrieve data to/from any Azure region in Europe without additional charge from Microsoft.

Note: Exchange Providers may have additional charges that are not included in the Microsoft charges listed above.

ExpressRoute is not available in the Japan West region. Please select another region.

ExpressRoute is not available in the US Gov Virginia region. Please select another region.

ExpressRoute is not available in the US Gov Iowa region. Please select another region.

Support & SLA

We provide technical support for all Azure services released to General Availability, including ExpressRoute, through Azure Support, starting at $--/month. Billing and subscription management support is provided at no cost.

We guarantee 99.9% ExpressRoute dedicated circuit availability. Availability is calculated over a monthly billing cycle. To learn more about our SLA, please visit the SLA page.

ExpressRoute billing starts when a service key is issued to the customer, and it stops after (1) a customer requests a circuit to be deleted AND (2) the Exchange Provider or Network Service Provider has deprovisioned the circuit.

No. From an ExpressRoute location in the US, you can only connect to US regions. From an ExpressRoute location in Europe, you can only connect to Europe regions. From any other ExpressRoute locations, you are limited to the region of that ExpressRoute location.

If your ExpressRoute service is active for the entire month, you will be charged the monthly fee regardless of usage. However, if you cancelled your ExpressRoute service during the month, you would only receive a prorated bill for the hours used and data transfer overage incurred.